by Melodee PETERS | Mar 20, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
This term all students in grades 7 to 9 focused on developing their communication skills, specifically their reading skills so that they could make notes that would help them complete their summative assessments based on analytical reading of poems. The specific...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Mar 20, 2025 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
During the Innovations and Technology Unit, eighth-grade students wrote an essay about the most important inventions and discoveries, following writing conventions and applying the skill of research and investigation into the most important inventions that changed...
by Melodee PETERS | Mar 20, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
As a great way to end their unit on Poetry Analysis, Grade 9 students could choose a poem to perform as a group, a pair, or individually. The students had great fun making props for the performance. They had to focus on using non-verbal communication techniques to...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Mar 13, 2025 | Grade 10, Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
During this week, through the Innovations and Discoveries unit, G8 students researched and investigated the most important inventions and discoveries over many years and listed a number of them. Each student identified the invention and worked on writing an essay by...
by Sahar Mohammad IBRAHIM | Feb 27, 2025 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9
During this week, eighth-grade students presented outstanding evaluations of world literature, analyzing characters and their development, exploring the sequence of events, delving into the style and language used, and extracting the themes and messages of literary...
by Melodee PETERS | Feb 27, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
This term Grade 9s students have been studying protest poetry. They learned note-making skills such as annotations and how to use a key for their annotations. They learned and practised identifying poetic devices that poets use to structure their poems as well as...
